Karnataka Dy CM DK Shivakumar, in the run up to the November 13 bypolls, promised Wayanad voters that his government would take a call on the pressing issue while appealing for their votes. He said their UDF candidate had already discussed the subject with chief minister Siddaramaiah and himself on giving relief to people from the current nine-hour traffic ban.
Officials from both Karnataka and Kerala would meet and discuss the issue after the bypoll, he had said. He may or may not have forgotten his promise, but the Wayanad MP is unlikely to let go of it.
Rahul Gandhi and Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, who are on the same page on the issue, were helpless earlier as Karnataka was ruled by the BJP. But INDI constituent parties are now ruling both Karnataka and Kerala, and the pressure will only increase on the new MP to walk the talk.Lifting the ban was among the chief demands of the locals to Gandhi Vadra. Residents of all seven assembly segments spread across three districts in the Wayanad LS constituency would benefit from lifting of the curbs, they said.
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Sulthan Bathery and Mananthavady, the two border taluks in Wayanad, are connected through the Bandipur and Kakanakote forests, respectively, in Karnataka. Both forests don’t allow vehicles at night.
Karnataka banned night traffic in NH 67E (Karnataka-TN) and 212 (Karnataka-Kerala) 10 years ago, and the decision was upheld by the state’s high court.
According to the forest officials in Bengaluru, about 7,000 vehicles use the two inter-state highways in the Bandipur forest during the daytime. “There would be unimaginable loss of wildlife if the ban were to be eased,” according to the Forest department. The forest officials in Karnataka had instead advocated extending the night ban to 12 hours starting 6 pm.In the past, Rahul Gandhi, as Wayanad MP, had pleaded the case of his voters, sections of whom were on a hunger strike demanding an end to the night ban on vehicular traffic in the Bandipur tiger reserve stretch of Karnataka.“The traffic ban is causing much inconvenience to the people of Wayanad and those in the bordering districts in Karnataka,” Vijayan’s office had posted on X previously. People of Wayanad even took a march from Sulthan Bathery to Moolehole on the Karnataka border, calling for an immediate easing of the ban. Karnataka had earlier indicated that it was in no mood to consider the demand.
Source: Economic Times
